Car Parts (Page 4): Other than showing human activity, which supports my statement about presence of people, they do not further the story. I have never learned how to remove unwanted...

RetCapt Loc: NorCal mountains

Other than showing human activity, which supports my statement about presence of people, they do not further the story.

I have never learned how to remove unwanted elements so I was stuck with them. I cropped as much as possible while still leaving some head room for the Jag.

If I do learn how to remove them at some future point, I will go back and do so.

I still stuck with this image because I like the artist in the foreground painting the car. With all the people milling around no one had thought to climb on the center median to get the perspective I did, and I had talked to the owner for a while before I went across. But once I was in the median and it was obvious what I intended to do, I had quite a line up behind me waiting to get the same composition.

tcthome Loc: NJ

Bill_de wrote:

I like it when someone shows the entire car, than adds some closeups of hood ornaments, or other features that may be unique to that particular model.

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alberio Loc: Casa Grande AZ

hpucker99 wrote:

I enjoy both the entire car and parts, depending on the lighting and background. I enjoy the art in the hood ornaments, trim, emblems and other details in cars from before 1970 or so. It seems after that, less design when into these items. Static photos of cars don't appeal to me; I prefer something in motion.

Now that's a Corvette I'd like to own.

imagextrordinair Loc: Halden, Norway

As an automotive journalist, close ups for me are mainly for published articles. For social media I prefer the full size image

20 megapixel images are more than adequate and often I print to 100cm wide high quality prints...

I hear some say they believe it is best to shoot with the absence of people... I go out of my way to get them in the shot for street style images. There is always a story to tell for that particular day or event...

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Bultaco Loc: Aiken, SC

Bill_de wrote:

I like it when someone shows the entire car, than adds some closeups of hood ornaments, or other features that may be unique to that particular model.

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BigDaddy Loc: Pittsburgh, PA

RetCapt wrote:

Other than showing human activity, which supports ... (show quote)

I like the whole car myself. I enjoy car shows, and taking pictures of the whole car. I also enjoy editing ALL my photo's and isolating the car from it's surroundings is a great way to practice editing skills, and you get to enjoy the car and it's default surroundings as well as the isolated car with the surroundings your NON AI imagination chooses.

Here are a couple of mine, I have a ton of them similarly done. It's a great way to learn and practice editing skills.

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BigDaddy Loc: Pittsburgh, PA

imagextrordinair wrote:

I hear some say they believe it is best to shoot with the absence of people... I go out of my way to get them in the shot for street style images. There is always a story to tell for that particular day or event...

I like them both ways. Your first photo is awesome. While I love the photo, I could no way prevent myself from editing out the people and the background and trying to come up with something that didn't ruin the picture. Whether I succeeded or not wouldn't matter all that much. It would give me a chance to spend some up close and personal time with my photo, and who knows might eventually impress myself.

gvarner Loc: Central Oregon Coast

The big challenge in car show photograph is blurring the background so photographers tend to move in for details. Shooting as wide open as you can will help and aggressive editing can remove people and blur the background. A nice composition could be an admirer's expression as they contemplate the vehicle before them.

Boomer Jim Loc: Newcastle Okla

EJMcD wrote:

I very much enjoy photographs of Classic and Custom vehicles. However, closely cropped photos of hood ornaments, grills and tail lights leave me empty. I know that some consider such images to be "artistic" but I like to see the entire vehicle. Am I alone in this regard?

No

MJPerini

EJMcD wrote:

I very much enjoy photographs of Classic and Custom vehicles. However, closely cropped photos of hood ornaments, grills and tail lights leave me empty. I know that some consider such images to be "artistic" but I like to see the entire vehicle. Am I alone in this regard?

You should shoot what you like, there is not a right or wrong way to do it.
If you look at classic car magazines you will usually see a few different views the whole car, perhaps a rear 3/4, and a bunch of detail shots .
If you are talking about Car Shows, then the reason for fewer ‘whole car shots’ is that the cars are often close together, with lots of people so unobstructed views are not easy to come by.

EJMcD

MJPerini wrote:

You should shoot what you like, there is not a right or wrong way to do it.
If you look at classic car magazines you will usually see a few different views the whole car, perhaps a rear 3/4, and a bunch of detail shots .
If you are talking about Car Shows, then the reason for fewer ‘whole car shots’ is that the cars are often close together, with lots of people so unobstructed views are not easy to come by.

Thanks, I always do and you can read my earlier comments about car shows.

terryMc Loc: Arizona's White Mountains

BigDaddy wrote:

I like the whole car myself. I enjoy car shows, and taking pictures of the whole car. I also enjoy editing ALL my photo's and isolating the car from it's surroundings is a great way to practice editing skills, and you get to enjoy the car and it's default surroundings as well as the isolated car with the surroundings your NON AI imagination chooses.

Here are a couple of mine, I have a ton of them similarly done. It's a great way to learn and practice editing skills.

As our journalist friend pointed out above, it's also nice to try to get the flavor of the surroundings occasionally. If this can be in-camera, so much the better, but since it's my photo, I believe that it is my prerogative if I choose to "improve" it by making changes.

Everyone likes what they like, and I never expect to please everyone with what I like. Here are two versions of a '54 Corvette and its owner...for the human interest.

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TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

terryMc wrote:

As our journalist friend pointed out above, it's also nice to try to get the flavor of the surroundings occasionally. If this can be in-camera, so much the better, but since it's my photo, I believe that it is my prerogative if I choose to "improve" it by making changes.

Everyone likes what they like, and I never expect to please everyone with what I like. Here are two versions of a '54 Corvette and its owner...for the human interest.

Very nice! (Personally, I prefer the 2nd one)

lmTrying Loc: WV Northern Panhandle

EJMcD wrote:

I very much enjoy photographs of Classic and Custom vehicles. However, closely cropped photos of hood ornaments, grills and tail lights leave me empty. I know that some consider such images to be "artistic" but I like to see the entire vehicle. Am I alone in this regard?

No you are not. I like to see the entire car first and foremost. Then if you want to show some details and close ups that's ok.

EJMcD

lmTrying wrote:

No you are not. I like to see the entire car first and foremost. Then if you want to show some details and close ups that's ok.